Ep 167 | Aired 11/20/2019
Will Trice is the newly appointed Executive Artistic Director of the Arkansas Repertory Theatre.
He has served as a producer for nearly 30 productions on Broadway, the West End, and National Tours, and is a three-time Tony Award winner for All The Way, starring Bryan Cranston; the Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; and The Gershwins' Porgy & Bess, starring Audra McDonald.
He is a five-time Tony nominee for Fiddler on the Roof; The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Wolf Hall; You Can’t Take It With You, starring James Earl Jones & Rose Byrne; The Glass Menagerie starring Cherry Jones & Zachary Quinto; and Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, starring John Larroquette & Candice Bergen. Other credits include: American Son, starring Kerry Washington; The Lifespan of A Fact, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Cherry Jones, & Bobby Cannavale; American Buffalo, starring Damien Lewis & John Goodman (West End); American Psycho; Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar & Grill, starring Audra McDonald (Broadway & West End); The Realistic Joneses, starring Toni Collette, Michael C. Hall, & Marisa Tomei; Blithe Spirit, starring Angela Lansbury (West End & National Tour); The Bridges of Madison County; and Glengarry Glen Ross, starring Al Pacino.
Prior to his career in producing, Trice served as a Business Analyst with management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, an Artistic Administration Associate with The Metropolitan Opera, and a Strategic Growth Associate with alternative asset managers D.E. Shaw & Company. He holds degrees from Southern Methodist and Northwestern Universities.
